BMP: NEXTGEN 3 showcases the most innovative work from future industry innovators. These ten up-and-coming composers--selected from a pool of over 140 applicants--write in a dazzling array of musical styles. This concert will feature one piece from each composer, and will be adjudicated by a panel of industry experts. Following this concert, two finalists will be chosen and commissioned to compose a 30 min vocal-theatre work. Ultimately, one of these finalists will be selected for a full evening-length commission.

November 24, 2024

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BMP: NEXTGEN 3 showcases the most innovative work from future industry innovators. These ten up-and-coming composers--selected from a pool of over 140 applicants--write in a dazzling array of musical styles. This concert will feature one piece from each composer, and will be adjudicated by a panel of industry experts. Following this concert, two finalists will be chosen and commissioned to compose a 30 min vocal-theatre work. Ultimately, one of these finalists will be selected for a full evening-length commission.

November 23, 2024

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In Timbalooloo, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves in the language of music. For this concert, Etkin invites Iranian musician Mehrnam Rastegari, a virtuoso of the Kamencheh—a Persian stringed instrument related to the violin. Clara will meet the Kamencheh and the Persian percussion instruments as they take the children on a journey full of song and dance.

November 17, 2024

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Please join National Sawdust for premiere performances of new compositions by Raven Chacon, Timothy Long, Connor Chee, Dawn Avery, Charles Shadle, Tim Archambult, and Sage Bond, performed by Jazmine Saunders, Kate Morton, Marion Newman, and Hai-Ting Chinn, with additional special performances by The Martha Redbone Roots Project.

November 16, 2024

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In 12 Easy Songs, Theo Bleckmann will set found texts found all over New York City. The project aims to celebrate the diversity, absurdity, and poetry embedded in the New York’s urban landscape, through the lens of Bleckmann’s melancholic and playful approach.

November 15, 2024

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Innovative artists Mazz Swift and Charlotte Jacobs present their new albums in this co-headline performance. Mazz Swift will perform music from The 1000 Things: Praise Songs for the iRiligious, while Charlotte will perform music from her forthcoming album a t l a s (out October 25).

November 13, 2024

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4 time Grammy nominated songwriter and singer Emily King was born and raised in New York City’s lower east side. She began her career playing venues in Greenwich village and was soon after discovered by Clive Davis who signed her to his J Records label at the age of 21.

November 10, 2024

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4 time Grammy nominated songwriter and singer Emily King was born and raised in New York City’s lower east side. She began her career playing venues in Greenwich village and was soon after discovered by Clive Davis who signed her to his J Records label at the age of 21.

November 9, 2024

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Artist pre-sale opens Thursday, August 22nd at 10AM EST and runs until public on-sale on Friday, August 23rd at 10AM EST. // Endless prairies and ocean waves; long drives and highway expanse; dancing, smoke, sex, and physical desire – the core images of Jess Williamson’s new album Time Ain’t Accidental revel in the earthly and the carnal.

November 8, 2024

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Members will have exclusive access to an intimate conversation between composer and musician, Charlotte Jacobs and writer, Lex McMenamin to learn more about Charlotte's work and creative practice ahead her performance with Mazz Swift on November 13th.

November 7, 2024

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Tickets go on-sale on Friday, April 19th at 10am EST // For Australian indie folk singer/songwriter Harrison Storm, Wonder, Won’t You? (Nettwerk) is the beginning to a wondrous journey of unbridled introspection into the deepest crevices of his own heart and mind. The debut album, out January 12th, is an invitation to join Storm on this adventure – to break down walls and open up.

November 3, 2024

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Brazilian drummer and composer Alex Kautz will celebrate the release of his new album “Where We Begin,” a project that represents unity between different cultures. Joined by a stellar ensemble featuring Jerome Sabbagh, Vinicius Gomes, Helio Alves, and Joe Martin, Alex will present original music as well as arrangements of songs and themes as a creative platform for a multicultural musical conversation between Jazz, Brazilian, and World Music.

November 1, 2024

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Tickets go on-sale on Friday, July 12th at 10am EST

October 30, 2024

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Tickets go on-sale on Friday July 12th at 10am EST.

October 29, 2024

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As part of the National Sawdust program Measha and Aaron will perform the American premiere of “Zombie Blizzard”, a new song cycle that Aaron composed, setting Margaret Atwood’s poems to music. “Zombie Blizzard” has a unique blending of the classical concert aria and jazz-influenced art song where Atwood’s lyrics tackle issues of sexism, humour, gender inequality, and grief.

October 28, 2024

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Miranda Cuckson and Stewart Goodyear perform the latter's latest composition for violin and piano. Mr. Goodyear was inspired to write this work especially for the extraordinary musicianship and virtuosity of Miranda Cuckson, and together they bring a collection of pieces that pay homage to the salon pieces of the 19th century but in the lens and soundtrack of the 21st. Calypso, reggae and rock shake hands with romances, waltzes, polkas, and fantasias.

October 26, 2024

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Cleo Reed and Matthew Jamal perform a co-headline performance at National Sawdust.

October 25, 2024

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Comedian and Violist Isabel Hagen comes together with her funniest comedian friends—Kyle Dunnigan, Josh Gondelman, and Jamie Lee—and some of her favorite musicians—Chelsea Starbuck Smith, Kate Dreyfuss, and Mitch Lyon—for a high-energy and hilarious night of comedy and music.

October 24, 2024

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The evening, hosted by Paola Prestini, builds a live approach to these photographs with a creative team and artists who will bring these photographs from the book to life, again. Featuring lighting design from Bruce Steinberg, and projection design of Jill's photographs by Camilla Tassi, these memories once captured through Jill's eye will be reborn via projected imagery in harmony with special performances - performances will include Sister Sylvester / Kathryn Hamilton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Delfeayo Marsalis, Brandon Maddox and Kevin Newbury, Rinde Eckert, Magos Herrera, Alicia Hall Moran, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Brooklyn Rider. In addition to the release of this book and the moving tributes from these artists, we will also be celebrating Jill's milestone 75th birthday; making this a night to toast the enduring legacy and creative footprint Jill has bestowed upon us all.

October 21, 2024

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Philly Born LSDXOXO made a name for himself in New York City as a DJ and producer, quickly becoming an essential figure at GHE20GOTH1K. He is known for destroying dance floors across the underground club scene with his energetic DJ sets, amassing attention for the way that he manipulates mainstream sounds by craftily layering pop tracks and vocal samples between Baltimore club, ghetto house, hardcore, electro and techno.

October 18, 2024

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Join us for an intimate evening with Des Rocs in his hometown of New York City to celebrate the end of the Dream Machine World Tour. We’ll also be celebrating the release of the Deluxe version of the Dream Machine album.

October 17, 2024

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Member pre-sale opens July 15th at 10AM EST and runs until July 22nd at 10AM EST, when tickets will go on-sale to the public.

October 16, 2024

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Pre-sale runs from Thursday May 30th at 10am to midnight. Public on-sale starts on Friday, May 31st at 10am EST.

October 11, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Ben Platt to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to talk about his album Honeymind, his creative process behind the project, his career, and more, with a special performance to follow.

October 10, 2024

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Ensemble Signal performs composer David Lang and filmmaker Bill Morrison's tenth collaboration, darker, in this multimedia performance.

October 9, 2024

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Emel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian-American singer-songwriter, composer, performer, and producer whose music has crossed time, countries and continents. MRA, Emel's latest album, is an ode to femininity and sisterhood carried by a close collaboration between women artists, musicians and producers from all over the world.

October 5, 2024

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Tickets go on-sale on Friday, May 17th at 10am EST // Hailed as “among modern music's most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal) "extraordinary" (DownBeat) and "most enchanting" (NPR), ganavya is a transdisciplinary scholar, vocalist, word-craftswoman, jalatarangam artist, and double-bassist. 

October 3, 2024

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Hailed as “among modern music's most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal) "extraordinary" (DownBeat) and "most enchanting" (NPR), ganavya is a transdisciplinary scholar, vocalist, word-craftswoman, jalatarangam artist, and double-bassist.

October 2, 2024

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National Sawdust's 10th Anniversary Season opens this September with composer, co-founder and artistic director Paola Prestini's first full-length work in our space - the celebrated and immersive new opera Silent Light. This "remarkable production" (Calgary Herald) will play four performances from September 26-29.

September 29, 2024

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National Sawdust's 10th Anniversary Season opens this September with composer, co-founder and artistic director Paola Prestini's first full-length work in our space - the celebrated and immersive new opera Silent Light. This "remarkable production" (Calgary Herald) will play four performances from September 26-29.

September 28, 2024

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National Sawdust's 10th Anniversary Season opens this September with composer, co-founder and artistic director Paola Prestini's first full-length work in our space - the celebrated and immersive new opera Silent Light. This "remarkable production" (Calgary Herald) will play four performances from September 26-29.

September 27, 2024

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National Sawdust's 10th Anniversary Season opens this September with composer, co-founder and artistic director Paola Prestini's first full-length work in our space - the celebrated and immersive new opera Silent Light. This "remarkable production" (Calgary Herald) will play four performances from September 26-29.

September 26, 2024

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Heavily inspired by the maritime, Motyka’s newest album, Aquamarine infuses many different genres including surf rock, electronic music, ambient music, jazz fusion, shoegaze and more. It features a nostalgic sound meant to reminisce on summers past.

September 7, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 6x GRAMMY Award-winning artist Jacob Collier to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation with Jason Robert Brown about his latest music, creative process, career, and more, with a performance to follow.

August 28, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Thomas Rhett to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation with producer Julian Bunetta about his latest project, About A Woman, his creative process, career, and more, with a special performance to follow.

August 20, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Nick Cave to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a special playback of his 18th album with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wild God, ahead of its release on August 30 and an intimate conversation about his creative process, career, and more, with a brief performance to follow.

August 15, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Nick Lowe at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation moderated by SNL's James Austin Johnson about his first album in over a decade - Indoor Safari due out September 13 on Yep Roc Records - his career, and more, with a performance to follow.

July 30, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Hurray for the Riff Raff at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation about the creative process of their latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, their career, and more, with a performance to follow.

July 17, 2024

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National Sawdust, Black Science Fiction & Gabriela bring you a very special Juneteenth Celebration to close out National Sawdust's 9th Season. After the Black Science Fiction performance at National Sawdust, the party will continue at Gabriela's with beloved local djs Bookworms, cry$cross and Devoye spinning up a storm!

June 19, 2024

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Black Science Fiction’s 2024 Juneteenth show features Konjur Collective and Isaiah Collier. Tickets get you free entry into our Season 9 Closing Party afterwards at Gabriela!

June 19, 2024

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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid for an evening of excerpts from her provocative new opera, "The Shell Trial," fresh on the heels of its world premiere in Amsterdam.

June 13, 2024

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Electronic composer, modular synthesist and vocalist Arushi Jain celebrates the release of her stunning new album, Delight, with a special performance at National Sawdust on Saturday, June 8th.

June 8, 2024

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Alto saxophonist and flutist Alan Braufman will perform music from his new album "Infinite Love Infinite Tears" (out May 17) as well as "Valley of Search" and "The Fire Still Burns." Braufman will be joined by his band featuring Patricia Brennan, Ken Filiano, Brandon Woody, and Newman Taylor Baker. Cooper-Moore will support with a solo piano set.

June 7, 2024

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Arun Ramamurthy Trio (ART) presents new music exploring the kindred spirits of Raga and Jazz. Drawing from Carnatic raga & rhythm structures, and coming to life in a freely improvising jazz trio, the CMA commissioned New Moon Suite honors tradition while embracing freedom and creativity.

June 5, 2024

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In this monthly interactive series, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves by making their instruments talk. Hosted by Timbalooloo founder Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet), featuring special guests!

June 2, 2024

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Artist pre-sale will run from 1/31 at 10am EST until tickets go on-sale to the public on 2/2 at 10am EST.

May 31, 2024

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Member pre-sale will open on Thursday, December 7th at 10am EST and will run until tickets go on-sale to the public on Friday, December 8th at 10am EST.

May 29, 2024

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Acclaimed pianist Inna Faliks celebrates her newly released Sono Luminus album, "Manuscripts Don't Burn," which also happens to be themost iconic line of Bulgakov's masterpiece, the Master and Margarita. Inna's most personal CD yet features a program of premieres written for her by Clarice Assad, Maya Miro Johnson, Veronika Krausas, Mike Garson and Ljova.

May 23, 2024

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Member pre-sale will open on Thursday, December 7th at 10am EST and will run until tickets go on-sale to the public on Friday, December 8th at 10am EST.

May 22, 2024

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Come join the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) on their most collaborative event of the season! Led by Director Dr. Kyle Blaha, new works composed by NYYS students will be conducted by NYYS students, and performed by NYYS students across their orchestra, chamber music, and jazz programs.

May 20, 2024

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Student CoLab is National Sawdust’s flagship education program for middle school composers and artists in partnership with El Puente Beacon’s Young Leadership Program. This concert is the culmination of the 3-month commissioning program, featuring performances by the students, new music, voice, bandola, cello, as well as visual art, all written and designed by the students.

May 19, 2024

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Please join National Sawdust for a lively discussion and premiere performances of new compositions by Timothy Long and R. Carlos Nakai, performed by Mark Billy, Katelyn Morton, and Marion Newman.

May 18, 2024

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Member pre-sale will open on Thursday, December 7th at 10am EST and will run until tickets go on-sale to the public on Friday, December 8th at 10am EST.

May 15, 2024

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In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month, the GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Awich followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation, moderated by Jamie Dominguez, will include a discussion about the creative process of her latest project, The Union, her career, and more.

May 14, 2024

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Our 2024 Toulmin Fellows present a night of music and dance comprising their works-in-progress. Composers Erica "Twelve45" Blunt and Wang Lu and choreographers Ausia Jones and Tiler Peck will showcase works developed during their interdisciplinary fellowship that incorporate our Meyer Sound spatial sound system, live audio-visuals, electronics, and dance. Join us as we celebrate our mentees' progress in this culminating showcase!

May 13, 2024

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For the first time, Margaret Glaspy is presenting a solo acoustic show filled with songs from her past and present. Freshly off the heels of her third full-length album, Echo The Diamond, the music emerged from a deliberate stripping-away of artifice to reveal life for all its harsh truths and ineffable beauty.

May 11, 2024

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With her explosive mix of hip hop, cumbia, dancehall and reggae, the Cuban singer, flautist and percussionist Yaite Ramos Rodriguez, aka La Dame Blanche delivers a powerful and compelling sound which summons the spirits

May 10, 2024

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Member pre-sale will open on Thursday, December 7th at 10am EST and will run until tickets go on-sale to the public on Friday, December 8th at 10am EST.

May 9, 2024

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This happy hour we're partnering with Greenpoint local mexcal brand, Las Chingonas, for an evening of drinks, music, and community. // FREE FOR MEMBERS

May 7, 2024

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Solidaire will present a program featuring the New York premiere of “The Six Seasons of Trees” by visionary composer Paola Prestini. The evening will also include new arrangements of Opening by Philip Glass.

May 5, 2024

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

May 3, 2024

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

May 2, 2024

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In this monthly interactive series, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves by making their instruments talk. Hosted by Timbalooloo founder Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet), featuring special guests!

April 28, 2024

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Commencing with original compositions by Bahar Badieitabar and Mahya Hamedi, they collaborate and improvise with other musicians to weave a narrative of empowerment and courage through innovative forms in music making and performance. // Festival and Day Passes Available

April 27, 2024

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Displaced Voices showcases the works of Afghan Composers alongside novel arrangements of Afghan folk and pop music, performed by the Freeharmonic orchestra members. // Festival and Day Passes Available

April 27, 2024

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‍Whispers of the Flesh is a poignant anthology written by Iranian women residing within Iran, serving as a testament to their resilience, strength, and unwavering spirit. Curated by Iranian-American playwrights and theater makers, Yekta Khaghani and Diana Fathi, this captivating collection of stories delves into the depths of womanhood in Iran, focusing on the intricate relationship Iranian women have with their bodies. // Festival Passes Available

April 26, 2024

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An NS+ evening of mixed fare devoted to the process of decomposition and cultivation, featuring New York Times food writer Melissa Clark, virtuoso percussionist David Cossin, theater artist and farmer Tannis Kowalchuk, compost activist Domingo Morales, and musician-composers Caroline Shaw, Mark Stewart, and more!

April 25, 2024

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Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace by multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings is, in a sense, a debut album. And yet, the album also serves as a reintroduction to the artist, a levitating, stunning work chock full of the lessons he’s learned over the course of his life and career. And perhaps, most importantly, it represents the spirit of exploration that the artist is most tapped into these days.

April 23, 2024

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SOLD-OUT! TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THE 9:30PM SHOW /// Shabaka’s work transcends conventional notions of genre and draws from a vast pallet of cultural influences.

April 23, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Tyler Hubbard followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of his solo sophomore album, Strong, his career, and more.

April 16, 2024

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Ancient City holds in its sound world of trombones, percussion and vocals-a beauty based on nature and rhythms of the land.

April 15, 2024

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Daniel Bernard Roumain and the DBR Lab return to National Sawdust to present cross-disciplinary talent by seven emerging artists from Arizona State University on Saturday, April 13, 2024.

April 13, 2024

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Jamaica-born and New York-based artist TYGAPAW asks, what if, instead of fleeing from the vitroil witnessed in our everyday lives, we sought to develop new languages to understand it through rage music? This bespoke performance for National Sawdust features new works entwined with alternate versions of highlights from the TYGAPAW catalog. The musician will join Resident Advisor critic Kiana Mickles for a conversation.

April 12, 2024

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Riddims of the Gods is the latest collaboration between dancer & choreographer Reggie ‘Regg Roc’ Gray, photographer Carol Dragon and DJ & Music Producer Epic B. Using the essential tools of storytelling through Flexn, the dancers will metamorphosize into Greek gods or goddesses, sharing their superpowers and leave us with a fragment of their glory.

April 11, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum in partnership with the Americana Music Association is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with T Bone Burnett followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of his new album, The Other Side, his career, and more.

April 10, 2024

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A new series co-produced by National Sawdust and The Metropolitan Opera that Navigates Questions of What Qualifies as Opera and Who Opera Is For Through Explorations of Modern Works

April 9, 2024

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Utilizing a series of drones, live cello loops, and National Sawdust’s immersive Meyer Sound Spacemap system, Maya Beiser pays tribute to Terry Riley’s classic work In C.

April 6, 2024

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Ran Blake (b. 1935) will perform a rare NYC concert in solo and duo format with special guests. To celebrate the release of Ran’s biography, this concert will be inter-spliced with a live interview and film clips to present a retrospective of the life and music of this iconic pianist.

April 5, 2024

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New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran defies classical norms with a contemporary, experimental approach to the piano. Presented by AdHoc.

April 3, 2024

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“Roger Eno creates pastoral landscapes in sound, letting each simple melody unfold with patience.” - Pitchfork

March 30, 2024

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Our March 29th performance of Roger Eno with ACME is sold-out. Tickets are still available for our March 30th performance // We'll sell tickets to the March 29th performance at the door based on capacity on a first-come first-serve basis. Our standby line opens at 6:30pm.

March 29, 2024

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"Piano Realities" is a program of works for piano and electronics featuring excerpts from David Bird’s Iron Orchid; the US premiere of Joanna Bailie’s new work, Marblepark; Aaron Einbond’s Cosmologies; the world premiere of Heather Stebbins’ All Things That Disappear; and the first North American performance of Alec Hall’s A dog is a machine for loving.

March 28, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Beth Ditto followed by a performance with Gossip at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation, moderated by T. Cole Rachel, will include a discussion about the creative process of their new album, Real Power, punk rock, knitting, Rick Rubin, chosen family, and more.

March 26, 2024

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In an evening of kaleidoscopic sound and movement, Sugar Vendil shares a set of new solo compositions for piano, voice, and live electronics, as well as a preview of her ensemble piece Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia with her performance group and collaborators, Isogram.

March 23, 2024

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This one-hour program brings together music that is transcendent in nature, drawing inspiration from dreams, medieval chant, renaissance polyphony, spirituality, and the power of silence.

March 22, 2024

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Lætitia Sadier plays National Sawdust with support from Storefront Church

March 20, 2024

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Centered around autobiographical stories of Laudau’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Performance of Self takes us on a relatable, emotional, funny, and deeply personal journey about love, sex, queerness, gender, family, online dating, boy bands, and the boxes we don’t quite fit in. Fusing memoir, concert, cabaret, and music-theatre, the debut solo show from the GRAMMY™ Award-nominated vocalist, composer, and percussionist, features original chamber rock compositions written and performed by Laudau, backed by a six-piece band of contemporary music all-stars.

March 16, 2024

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Centered around autobiographical stories of Laudau’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Performance of Self takes us on a relatable, emotional, funny, and deeply personal journey about love, sex, queerness, gender, family, online dating, boy bands, and the boxes we don’t quite fit in. Fusing memoir, concert, cabaret, and music-theatre, the debut solo show from the GRAMMY™ Award-nominated vocalist, composer, and percussionist, features original chamber rock compositions written and performed by Laudau, backed by a six-piece band of contemporary music all-stars.

March 15, 2024

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( (( PHONATION )) ) is a multimedia performance by Bora Yoon with live video manipulations by R. Luke DuBois, exploring where sound connects to the subliminal using found sounds, new and antiquated instruments, electronic devices, and voice.

March 9, 2024

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In this monthly interactive series, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves by making their instruments talk. Hosted by Timbalooloo founder Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet), featuring special guests!

March 3, 2024

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Critically acclaimed poet and rising novelist Phillip B. Williams presents a musical celebration of his novel Ours, featuring a live reading of excerpts and live musical interludes from Chicago’s genre-defying Akenya and UK sensation Jerome Thomas.

March 2, 2024

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Ahead of the release of her eleventh studio album, Lo, The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation moderated by songwriter and artist Joe Henry with GRAMMY-award winning artist Paula Cole followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of Lo, her career, and more.

February 27, 2024

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Don't miss a zany evening devoted to "Insectum", a sonic exploration of the world of arthropods, featuring composer-musicians Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, Graham Reynolds, and evolutionary biologist Jessica Ware.

February 26, 2024

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“A Worthy Mirror” is a commissioning project of female and non-binary composers in response to 12th-century trobairitz texts.

February 25, 2024

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Irish piano trio Fidelio Trio make their much-anticipated debut at National Sawdust with an eclectic offering of works by Anna Clyne, Philip Glass, Linda Buckley, David Fennessy, John Zorn, and inti figgis-vizueta.

February 24, 2024

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American pianist Bruce Brubaker will take the stage on February 23rd for a concert highlighting his 12th studio album Eno Piano. This record, released November 10th on InFiné, encompasses a selection of Brian Eno’s iconic ambient music, including Music for Airports.

February 23, 2024

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A new series co-produced by National Sawdust and The Metropolitan Opera that Navigates Questions of What Qualifies as Opera and Who Opera Is For Through Explorations of Modern Works

February 22, 2024

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In Uptown Nights: Convent to Wythe, Harlem Stage and National Sawdust band together in a cross-borough collaboration to present yuniya edi kwon, SUN HAN GUILD, and Bora Yoon.

February 16, 2024

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Montclair State University’s John J Cali School of Music showcases the music of their year long Artist in Residence and award-winning multimedia composer, Paola Prestini.

February 10, 2024

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Join us for a roundtable discussion with the composers of A WORTHY MIRROR, moderated by poet and critic danilo machado. This roundtable will explore how A WORTHY MIRROR translates lyric poetry into new compositions, forefronts female and anonymous femme voices in medieval canon, and reflects upon themes of gender, self, and relationships across time.

February 7, 2024

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